【205】Thousands of miles of rivers and mountains open a new face (9)

In the British Legation, Wei Tuma stood in front of the globe in a waistcoat, the edge of the snow-white shirt with small lapels, decorated with a circle of lace piping, he said to himself: "If the parliament does not agree to send troops, then I should continue to negotiate, maybe I should show a softer figure, I can see that Yao Fan is a sleek guy, but he is extremely tough on some sensitive issues, this kind of person is an out-and-out dangerous element, maybe it is really as he said, accepting gifts and calming things down is the best plan...... The Germans had apparently entered into some kind of secret agreement with him, which was probably a commercial agreement......"

Wittoma unconsciously fell into deep thought, and suddenly the door was pushed open, and Sweets walked in with an envelope bag on his face anxiously: "Mr. Minister, Yao Fan has just promulgated the North China Provisional Security Act, and the embassies of all countries in China have been notified. ”

As he spoke, Swiftz handed the official document with the envelope bag in his hand to Wei Tuma, since Yao Fan took over Beijing, all official documents have been in the mode of envelope bag with fire paint.

The seal had already been opened, and inside were two pieces of paper, one was a notice from Yao Fan's government, and the other was a snow-white letter paper that had just been translated by the British Legation. Wei Tuma took out the rice paper in the bag of Wen Jiàn, and with his profound knowledge of Chinese, he quickly understood the text and understood the meaning.

"This thug! This thug! Now it's okay, he can get what he wants, yes, that's the wrath of the British Empire!! ”

Swaitz, who had apparently read the text from the translator, said anxiously: "The three points put forward by the Chinese are really too much: First, we must completely ban the opium trade in the so-called 'liberated areas', arrest all addicts and sell them through labor, and execute all traffickers and sellers, and all their families will be sent to labor camps." This is in our best interest! Everyone knows that ninety percent of the opium on the Chinese market is supplied by the British!

Article 2 claims to abolish the Treaty of Dian immediately, which is simply an intolerable repentance! This is an insult and a mockery to the British government!

Article 3 went so far as to claim that their People's Liberation Army would be armed into the British Concession in Tianjin to carry out a so-called temporary takeover to ensure regional security. This is an outright aggression against the overseas territories of the British Empire! ”

Wittoma's facial muscles twitched, and he said hideously: "This thug! Rogue! Since he wants to provoke a war, then he will get it! As long as the Parliament of Great Britain and Her Majesty the Queen get these three bullshit statements from him, sending troops will be inevitable! ”

In the same way, the envoys of the other countries in China who received the "North China Provisional Security Act" also had their own evil intentions at this moment, because Britain promoted the interests of the British ratification in order to deepen the Chinese colonial process, so everyone was able to share some colonial interests in China to a greater or lesser extent, but more than ninety percent of them were controlled by the British. Since Britain monopolized all the sea supply ports from Europe to East Asia, the cost of any country's merchant ships was higher than that of Britain's own merchant ships, and this kind of market competition was obviously unfair.

The envoys of all countries in China saw that according to the content of the treaty promulgated by the Chinese, Britain had to send troops this time, and probably this war would be named the Third Opium War. As in the past, most countries believe that Britain will be the victor, but Britain will use the temptation of dividing the war dividends to attract its own countries to send troops together, so the next negotiations with Britain are very critical, and the number of troops and the division of dividends are worth bargaining.

Although Austria-Hungary did not understand where the confidence of the Germans came from, but as an ally, Austria-Hungary still decided to sell his personal favors, not to mention that Austria-Hungary could not draw troops at this time, and they did not have any Far Eastern colonies to transport troops over short distances, and countries in the same situation also included Italy, the Netherlands and other countries.

France, Japan, Russia, the United States, and some countries such as Peru, Portugal, Spain, and other countries wanted to participate, but Britain did not look down on them and was unwilling to share the benefits with them.

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Tianjin Governor's Mansion, Li Hongzhang began to gaze at the pomegranate tree in the courtyard through the window again, only this time he was not standing in the study, but in the small hall in the side of the study.

"Zao Fan asked me to go to Beijing to help him form the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, what do you think?" Li Hongzhang asked.

Zhou Fu, as the number one staff member, was in charge of all Li Hongzhang's documents, and said: "Yao Zaofan's land policy has offended the gentry of the world, if the lord goes to say something for him, he will be hated by the gentry of the world, it is better to stay in Tianjin for the time being and wait and see what happens." Now Yao Zaofan and the British have torn their faces, once the British send troops, Yao Zaofan will be defeated, and the world will inevitably be in chaos. He had not been in trouble for a long time, and he had no foundation, and once he was frustrated, his camp was afraid that people's minds would change. ”

Sheng Xuanhuai, who originally accompanied the British to explore iron ore in Hubei in 1876, was in the Tianjin shogunate at the moment, and he said calmly: "Yao Zaofan is not an ordinary person, he dares to provoke the British, so he naturally made up his mind to cut a piece of meat from the British." Although I don't know where his confidence comes from, but looking at this person's articles, his logic is meticulous, his mind is deep, he reads his poems, he is arrogant, and his chest is full of people, and he is really a masterpiece once in three hundred years. ”

Li Hongzhang said: "So, Xingsun is in favor of me going to Beijing?" ”

"Students think it's better to go late than early. To put it mildly, the lord is now living in the Governor's Mansion without a single soldier, and what Yao Zaofan borrows is nothing more than the adult's fame and governing ability. I don't think Yao Zaofan is a person who is very interested in fame, otherwise he wouldn't offend the powerful gentry in the world and don't care, and Beijing is full of officials, Yao Zaofan's knife hangs above their heads, it is easy for him to win over anyone, but he values dà people, it can be seen that what he wants is the ability of adults to govern the country.

If you have a homecoming, you can go back to seclusion, I estimate that with Yao Zaofan's ambitions, although he will keep it, he will never stop it. If an adult wants to develop his ambitions again, he must integrate into Yao Fan's system.

Yao Zaofan now has won North China, and he has carried out land reform to win the hearts of the people, and the soldiers are brave and honest unprecedented, and it is only a matter of time before he encompasses the world, although his land reform policy stinks among the gentry, but as he said in his book, power comes out of the barrel of a gun, which is incisive and I can't refute it. ”

Zhou Fuyan said: "Then he will go to Changzhou in the future, is he willing to hand over the fields in your hometown for nothing?" ”

"The general trend of the world is like this, if it really comes to that point, my Sheng family has no choice but to go with the flow, do you want to stop the car with the mantis arm? Yao Zaofan made it clear in the book that in order to break the feudal royal power and establish a republic, it is necessary to change the old land ownership system and break the historical cycle law of the rise and fall of Chinese civilization.

I read his words, and meditated for three days and three nights, and I couldn't refute them. In this case, where do I have the qualifications to contradict, he said that he hopes that the enlightened gentry of the world will run industry and commerce from now on, saying that industry and commerce are the foundation of a strong country, and that the land is evenly distributed to the poor in the world, which is the basic national policy of the Republic for ten thousand years, and I am convinced of it! My Sheng family is willing to transform into an entrepreneur, set up a factory for a strong country, and raise business as he Yao Zaofan said. ”

Li Hongzhang glanced at Sheng Xuanhuai, who said what was in his heart, and admired it in his heart, in fact, Li Hongzhang also thought so.

"I'm going to Beijing, would you like to go with me?"

"In Xia Sheng Xuanhuai is willing to follow."

"Student Xue Fucheng is willing to follow."

"Zhou Fu is willing."

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In the midst of the land reform in North China, Yao Fan adhered to the principle that all those who were willing to carry out the policy of the enlightened gentry should immediately disperse the fields, divide the big families into small family units, and retain the real estate and property of the original head of the family, but not allow him to enter the peasant association to hold any position. Anyone who resists, then please taste the bloody revenge land reform under military control.

Yao Fan's expansion basically did not choose the old green battalion, but relied on the peasants after the land reform, and these soldiers had the strongest centripetal force. With regard to the reorganization of the Huai Army, Yao Fan also adopted the method of completely breaking up the various units assigned to them, and did not retain the original structure at all. The 300,000-strong army practiced day and night on the land of North China, and all units deeply promoted the "Guo Xingfu Teaching Method", and there were frequent large-scale competitions between officers and soldiers, soldiers and soldiers, so that the soldiers could grow up rapidly.

The good news came from the Zibo Mint, due to the thorough minting production process, now the mint according to the minting speed of 6,000 silver coins per hour, the production of more than 100,000 silver coins per day, a month is more than 3 million, according to the calculation of one yuan silver coin equal to two silver, a silver coin weighs 26 grams, than the original 32.5 grams of a tael of loose silver, to save two percent of silver.

To Yao Fan's displeasure, due to the rapid expansion of the troops, there were some phenomena of non-compliance with military aircraft, and some soldiers engaged in prostitution and even gambling; while strictly ordering all units to severely criticize unhealthy tendencies, Yao Fan promulgated the "Measures for Handling Brothels and Prostitutes in the Liberated Areas (Draft)" and banned brothels at the same time as banning tobacco houses and casinos, thus beginning a vigorous declaration of war against pornography, gambling, and drugs.

Yao Fan ordered a quick trial and execution of all the bustards and brothel keepers, and quickly solved the problem, but the internal and external military pressures and the shortage of political cadres made Yao Fan have no time to delay in these small sections. During the same period, a large number of people were arrested and tried quickly, as well as casino owners, tobacco restaurant owners, and underworld gang members. For a time, North China was clear.

Considering that all the prostitutes in these years were sold into brothels, and letting them be good was tantamount to cutting off their food rations, Yao Fan ordered the reform of prostitutes to be an important task, and mobilized a large number of military women cadres to help prostitutes learn to sew. Yao Fan had a large number of ready-made foot-operated sewing machines, so garment factories with various regional cities as the core were planned and established, mainly to process and produce underwear, underwear, cotton jackets and other clothing for the troops.